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Power cuts feared in UK nuclear plants crisis
Doug wrote:
On 6 Oct, 07:35, "Graculus" wrote: "Doug" wrote in message ... So we can forget about electric cars then? OFF TOPIC. You mentioning electric cars does not make this relevant to uk.transport. What about electric trains? I have a telescope with a camera attached, so I might have problems getting the images onto my laptop. Does this make it on topic in uk.sci.astronomy? Actually I wouldn't mind if all the power went off one night, I might actually get a dark sky! -- Abo |
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Power cuts feared in UK nuclear plants crisis
Hi Abo
I have a telescope with a camera attached, so I might have problems getting the images onto my laptop. Does this make it on topic in uk.sci.astronomy? I run my mount, ccd autoguider and laptop from a car battery so , apart from carrying the thing, no problems. So yes, it's on topic for uk.sci.astronomy (sorry to uk.transport for continuing to be off-topic). Actually I wouldn't mind if all the power went off one night, I might actually get a dark sky! Me too. But what are the chances of it coinciding with it being clear AND moonless? Also, a while back we were blessed with a power cut so what did the neighbours do? Ran outside and waved torches in the air (B*****ks) Neil |
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Power cuts feared in UK nuclear plants crisis
"Abo" wrote in message
... Doug wrote: On 6 Oct, 07:35, "Graculus" wrote: "Doug" wrote in message ... So we can forget about electric cars then? OFF TOPIC. You mentioning electric cars does not make this relevant to uk.transport. What about electric trains? I have a telescope with a camera attached, so I might have problems getting the images onto my laptop. Does this make it on topic in uk.sci.astronomy? Actually I wouldn't mind if all the power went off one night, I might actually get a dark sky! -- Abo Back in the mid-1970s, when we had the three-day week and rolling power cuts, I was observing with some students on the Isaac Newton Telescope (it was still in Sussex back then). The official plan was that, to conserve power, they would only work up to midnight. So if it was cloudy before midnight (when they were on watch, but could not open the dome) and they shut down after midnight (even if it cleared) the management was able to confirm back up the channels that RGO had done its bit for the national economy. This was not much help to the astronomers, as many of our objects were on the 3am side of the night. -- Mike Dworetsky (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply) |
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